Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold standard, very well, I would say let us go off. But there has been no need. If there were need for currency expansion, I would say let us expand. . . . My colleagues talk about serving the public. What public? The men who work for a wage, the clerks, the stenographers, the professional men will be the people to suffer under this unbridled expansion. That is what it is because the rein is so loose that the steed will never stop until he goes over the precipice, killing his rider. "I find I must desist. It is painful to disagree with...
...possible for producers to hire talent without competitive bidding. Actors, writers, directors and especially agents were against the proposal. Organized opposition came from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, which has supported studio employes in their demand for an audit of studio books as a preliminary to the wage cut. After a stormy meeting of the Academy's directors Cinemactor Conrad Nagel, the Academy's president, resigned last week. Cinema writers got a union organizer to help them reform the Screen Writers' Guild. Its 312 members agreed to have no dealings with the Bureau, planned...
Furthermore the bill as instituted is definitely of a deflationary character, and precisely reactionary to the new legislative scheme of the Administration in its process of whipping the depression. For a thirty-hour week at the same hourly wage rate will see the income of the laborer sliced and a further stagnation of business channels. It would be much the wiser and discreet policy for Miss Perkins to fall in line and promote controlled inflation as the proper stimulus for the regeneration of employment...
...call your attention to minimum wage law just, passed by Legislature of New York. . . . This represents a great step forward against lowering of wages which constitutes a serious form of unfair competition against the employers, reduces the purchasing power of the workers and threatens the stability of industry. I hope similar action can be taken by the other states for the protection of the public interest...
...President considered including a minimum wage provision in the minimum work-week law. Suggested was the creation of a variety of Federal boards to fix rock-bottom wages in different industries. President Roosevelt thought only 10% of U. S. industry would need such boards to prevent employers from cutting their employes' throats in trying to cut each other...